To-morrow WHEN I was Ten years old I played marbles ‘for keeps,’ smoked little pieces of rattan buggywhip in the hay-scented barn and slid ‘belly-buster’ down long winter hills on my sled. And I hammered and sawed ruinously with grownup tools, whistling happily. And I played with dolls absorbedly for hours on end. I was not boyish and not girlish. I was not childish except for an oddly hungry child-heart. I was myself. So long ago and longer I consciously owned an eerie quality which toppled over the edge of my humanness. And still own it. |